old. Stems stout, zigzag, almost horizontal, leafy. Leaves 
nearly sessile, trifoliolate ; leaflets sessile, one to three inches 
long, very variable in length and breadth, obovate, oblan- 
ceolate, or obovate-spathulate, acute, reticulately veined, turn- 
ing black when dry, as do the stems. Stipules very large, 
leafy, ovate-lanceolate, acute. Racemes often a foot long, 
very-many-flowered. lowers crowded, subsecund, pedicels as- 
cending, one to one and a half inches long ; bracts large, leafy, 
ovate-lanceolate, acute, spreading and reflexed. Calyx tube 
subcampanulate ; lobes four, short, subacute. Corolla yel- 
lowish-white ; standard orbicular, clawed, notched, reflexed ; 
wings oblong, notched at the base, claw slender; keel boat- 
shaped, equalling the wings, also with a slender claw. Fila- 
ments glabrous ; anthers small. Ovary slender, villous ; stigma 
simple. Pod large, ovoid, turgid, hoary, long pointed.— 
# D, H. 
Fig. 1, Flower with petals removed; 2, standard; 3, wing; 4, keel; 
5, ovary :—all magnified. 
